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- Archive 1-August 17, 2006 through October 7, 2006
- Archive 2-October 8, 2006 through October 22, 2006
- Archive 3-October 23, 2006 through December 19, 2006
- Archive 4-December 20, 2006 through March 22, 2007
- Archive 5-March 23, 2007 through July 4, 2007
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[edit] Deleted
As requested I deleted those pages, thanks/wangi 12:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for adding your name to my friends list! -- TheGreatLlama (speak to the Llama!) 16:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Warning
This is your last warning.
The next time you vandalize a page, as you did to Bummer Vacation, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Squirepants101 18:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Monthly Message Test-October
Tennisuser123 22:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)-
TEST MESSAGE
-Tennisuser123 22:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- TEST ACKNOWLEDGED
-Wikiuser456 22:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tips for new Users
New Users-
- Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. There are several types of Articles. One type is the main articles, others are help, MediaWiki, Portal, Category, Image and User Page. Each and every one of these also have talk pages. For example, you can have Portal Talk, Category Talk, etcetra-all of the above types of articles have talk pages. All users can find someone in the welcoming comitee to teach them about Wikipedia. Some offhand people who also welcome new users are Drini, Luna Santin or Wangi. You should write them a message by clicking the "+" tab next to the "Edit this page" tab to write a subject and then, like an email, say the user's username, type <br>and then write your message requesting help. Then, write<br>and ~~~~ and click "Save page." Then, a user will get back to you. Also, if you are looking for help, create a user page and type {{help me}} and do the same on YOUR talk page. Once on your talk page, type <br>and then ~~~~. When leaving a message, always go <br>~~~~ to sign it properly. Always follow a user's talk page guidelines before editing if they have any.
Tennisuser123 14:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Test Worked
The monthly check for October worked.
Tennisuser123 14:22, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edit Summaries
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.
Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. --Alex (Talk) 18:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NYCS Navbox
I removed those new templates you put into the box. There not necessary, so please don't put them in again. The Legendary Ranger 21:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] namespacevio
I have moved Tennisuser123/Concordia moved to User:Tennisuser123/Concordia. -- RHaworth 10:52, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nantucket Airlines Schedule
I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Nantucket Airlines Schedule, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Nantucket Airlines Schedule. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome, Tennisuser123, to Esperanza! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.
Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is Stressbusters, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.
In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Proposals.
If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact our administrator general Natalya by email or talk page. Consider introducing yourself at the Esperanza talk page! Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, you may find help at an IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!
Acs4b 12:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Congrats
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| I hereby award you with the Running Man Barnstar for your contibutions to Tennis Related Aricles--IAMTHEEGGMANΔdark side 05:51, 20 October 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] Welcome to Wikitravel
Hello Wikitravelman123!
Welcome to Wikitravel. If you want to specialize your experience you may want to consider editing your preferences. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and [[wikitravel:Wikitravel:How to edit a page|edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to the whole wiki community look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to use the wiki markup. If you need help, check out Wikiravel:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.
Please see Wikitravel: Links to Wikipedia for information about linking to Wikipedia, and welcome to Wikitravel! -- Ryan 19:45, 20 October 2006 (EDT)
[edit] Welcome to Wikiversity
Hello Wikiversityman123! Welcome to Wikiversity! If you decide that you need help, check out Wikiversity:Help desk, ask the support staff, or ask me on my talk page. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! -- Trevor MacInnis 20:33, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
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Getting Started
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Getting your info out there
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Getting more Wikiversity rules
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Getting Help
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Getting along
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Getting technical
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[edit] Welcome to Wikiquote
Hi Wikiquoteman123. Welcome to English Wikiquote.
Enjoy! —LrdChaos (talk) 04:43, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A request to protect your user page
I read your passage in wikipedia:requests for page protection, and I think you did fine requesting it. However, I assume you either forgot or ignore instructions there. So rather than re-editing it, I hope you could change it to make a message easier to read and link. --Gh87 01:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- I went to wikipedia:requests for page protection, and your request was deleted. But that's okay because I hope you can request it the second time, but in better way of formatting it. Here are the instructions from that page:
- Either type (in bold) full protection, semi-protection, move protection, or request more than one.
- If you want to protect your user page, type {{lu|USER NAME}}.
- Then type whatever you wish in your passage.
- Also, you forgot to sign, so I hope you're familiar with typing your auto-sig, right?
- EDIT: I forgot to sign. --Gh87 04:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for the B-Star
Thanks alot that really made me happy.--Seadog.M.S 02:09, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1
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Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience:
- "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention."
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| The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. |
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| Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone! |
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- Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before.
- Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log.
- In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time.
- The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified.
- A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community.
- The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially.
- Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on.
- The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen.
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[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2
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The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date:
- "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated."
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| The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. |
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| Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks! |
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- The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details.
- The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page.
- The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly.
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A plea from the editor...
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| The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. |
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[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3
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The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service.
- This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
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| The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! |
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Note from the editor
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| As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership! |
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- Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel.
- A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect.
- Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct.
- Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop.
- Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon.
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[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter
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| The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! |
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What's New?
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| In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. |
| To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. |
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. |
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- In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!
- The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
- Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created.
- Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
- Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
- There is a page for discussing the front page redesign.
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| Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. |
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[edit] September Esperanza Newsletter
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| Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! |
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| September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! |
| Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! |
| The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. |
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter. |
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- The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
- Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
- The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
- The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
- TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
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[edit] Thanks for the barnstar
Thanks Wikipedianman for the barnstar. I really appreciate it. -- Szvest 22:34, 21 October 2006 (UTC) User:FayssalF/Sign
[edit] Barnstar
Thanks for the Barnstar! I would give you one, but I don't know if I'm allowed. By the way, why are they called barnstars? I'm still new here so please think I'm being stupid right now. Randfan 14:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
For the two barnstars! I'm glad that I am appreciated! --Alex (Talk) 19:57, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
